Okay, but can I point out how lacking in empathy this one manager at work is?
They are stone cold. STONE COLD!
They reached out to me to see if I could pull any information on a former employee who worked at their site 15 years ago.
They reached out because they learned that this former employee was being hired by a company we contract with for 3rd party maintenance. They wanted to find out if the former employee had performance issues.
Do they not understand how much a person can change in 15 years? I know I'm not the same person I was 5 years ago, let alone 15.
And how dare they have the nerve to ask!? So what if this former employee was terrible in the position they held with us 15 years ago? It was a different role than the one they are currently in the process of being hired for.
What if, with their questions, this manager poisons the new role for the former employee? What can this manager gain by ruining opportunities for this former employee? They are living in this capitalistic hellscape, same as me. If I can see how hard it is out there for people, this manager has no excuse for not seeing it as well.
(Shit, I'm stuck in the job that I loathe because I need what it provides (salary, benefits), and I can't seem to find a role that suits me better that 1. I want, 2. that wants me back, 3. that pays close to what I'm making now, and 4. would help support my family and their needs. I'm employed and I feel how awful it is out there for job seekers!)
This manager just doesn't think beyond what is good for their site and the company. They seem to have forgotten what it means to be a decent human. But I can't suggest that to them without consequences. So I come here to whine and complain.
I hate this society so much right now. I would never choose to live this way if there were better, more humane options.
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so, old news obvious news blah blah, but i keep seeing people not getting this about my girl gideon nav so have to say:
i think at first blush, people get the impression that Harrow’s got all the convolutions and layers and hidden vulnerability whereas gideon wears her heart on her sleeve and is just brazenly herself (a loveable rowdy himbo) & that’s the contrast.
and yes, that’s there, but that’s not all. that dynamic itself is a part of their mutual (codependent) front, and like everything else in this book, it gets peeled back.
i think the real contrast is that they’ve both got masks, and those masks are complimentary. they’re both kids who never got a childhood. they grew up tortured in the same place from very different angles with no one but each other to butt heads against. they both had to play-act grown up versions of themselves with few models for what a well-adjusted adult even looked like. so it’s cartoonish. gideon is the plucky hero of her own adventure story that will totally have a happy ending some day, far far away from her nemesis whom she’s totally not in love with. harrow meanwhile (to grossly oversimplify) has to imagine herself as someone cruel and cold enough to cope with being alive at the price of 200 other people. these two things fit very well together. gideon can play the hero to harrow’s villain, and harrow can enact cruelty toward gideon to make herself feel strong and mean (and generally just to vent anguish). the way they hate one another is a kind of mutual protection - it re-enforces the self-image that each of them needs to get through the day. but that’s the coping mechanism. harrow the ruthless bones overlord. gideon the hapless swords idiot, who thinks of nothing but tiddies & sweet sweet vengence (harrow’s corpse in various states of disgrace ) all day. and behind that they’re both tearing apart at the seems beneath caricatures of themselves that are deeply unsustainable and neither of them feels safe letting on the extent to which that’s the case. their hearts are a goddamned mess. neither of them is wearing that shit on their sleeve.
so yeah, there’s a lot more to gideon than being a swords himbo but that’s not the wild thing. the wild thing is she’s so convincing that she somehow manages to sell people on her no braincells act while being the pov character of entire first novel.
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the way i was like “don’t expect much art from me for a while!” and then go and do something like this 😐
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[Image description: A four page comic detailing Kaeya’s Hidden Strife event dialogue with Adelinde and his strained relationship with Diluc.
A box on the first page states, “Hidden Strife event final day”. Adelinde explains with her head bowed politely, “I’m sorry, Captain Kaeya, but the Dawn Winery is having a fire safety inspection today. You’ll have to come back another day.” Kaeya averts his eyes with a concerned expression.
On the second page, Kaeya forces a smile. He starts: “Haha... seriously, shouldn’t you at least ask me to stay for din- -ner?”. He sees something in the distance and his eyes widen in shock.
The third page depicts Aether and Paimon running out of the manor. “Come on!” Paimon exclaims. “Diluc is waiting for us at Falcon Coast!” Kaeya and Adelinde can be seen in the background.
The fourth page starts with a flashback to a scene in Angel’s Share during Diluc’s Noctua: Chapter 1 story quest. Kaeya recalls telling him, “I feel strangely comforted by the fact that you now have an assistant, Diluc.” “I just wish,” he thinks to himself, “it could have been me standing by your side again.” At the bottom of the page, a young Diluc and Kaeya dressed in their Knights of Favonius uniforms laugh together. Kaeya has a hand on Diluc’s shoulder. Diluc has an arm slung over Kaeya’s shoulder and bends over slightly as he laughs.]
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